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SHPSORT(1) shplib SHPSORT(1)

shpsort - rewrite a shapefile sorted by a field or by the geometry

shpsort infile outfile field[;...] [<(ASCENDING|DESCENDING)[;...]>]

Rewrite a shapefile sorted by a field or by the geometry. For polygons, sort by area, for lines sort by length and do nothing for all others.

input shapefile
output shapefile
one or more fields to use for ordering
[<(ASCENDING|DESCENDING)[;...]>]
sort order

shpsort is part of shapelib, maintained by Frank Warmerdam.

dbfadd(1), dbfcat(1), dbfcreate(1), dbfdump(1), dbfinfo(1), shpcat(1), shpcentrd(1), shpcreate(1), shpdump(1), shpdxf(1), shpfix(1), shpinfo(1), shpproj(1), shprewind(1), shptest(1)

March 2023